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It really isn't. It's a tighter restriction. Elhokar was a highly trained shardbearer. He could protect himself(people fight while falling down drunk). But sometimes you protect others because it's right, even if they can handle themself.

In Space no one can hear you scream.

He had a Spren before his Oaths in the same way Kal did. Pretty sure we saw him talking to it before he used Surges. The rest of the Squires have been really close to Kal and seem to be more interlinked with his surge binding from what I remember. The rest were practicing with the Honorblade. That said my memories of that are vague and I just started a reread of OathBringer but

It's intimated that the Spren copied that magic. There's a lot of little things that suggest surge binding was similar on Ashyn and Roshar. The most significant of which is Kaladin's Gravitation acceleration versus that of the Listeners. Kaladin accelerates faster than they do, likely because they're using different gravitational constants from the two planets. The creation of the Honorblades in such a structured way(two surges per blade, with the surges progressing in a cyclical fashion around the group suggest that these were predetermined pairings the Heralds had an understanding of. Surges being defined as natural laws utilized by magic also intimates that they were a constant. I don't buy that they called all magic surgebinding.

Stormlight isn't Pewter strong, but it's substantial enough where Szeth dropped Dalinar with a single punch to the ribs. And Szeth is not some bulky oversized guy. He's small and willowy while Dalinar has been shown to be tough as hell. The Description of Stormlight is that it perfects. Rock is huge by Rosharan Alethi Standards which puts him on the scale of humans like Andre The Giant or the Guy who plays The Mountain. Guys that could literally do superhuman feats of Strength. I don't think he's doing anything with Stormlight. I think he's just huge and not quite human. We know the Horneaters were chased into the mountains for being the scariest warriors on the planet. As for gravitation, Squires don't seem to have access to surges and Rock hasn't bonded a Spren yet so gravitation isn't the answer.

Strong not entirely human guy. Think about how strong warform Listeners are leaping chasms. He's got that running in his gene pool.

Don't we know that they used Surges on Ashyn and that caused the crisis that necessitated the flight to Roshar.

I feel like the Heralds became Heralds through the Oathpact. The behaviors that earned it was being willing to deal with the horror that this caused. The suffering it brought. I don't think that more is needed. That said obviously the age gap of 35 to ten could be much smaller. 35 to 18 or 39 to 22 wouldn't be unreasonable as I doubt anybody would have a 10 year old sign up for millenia of being chased and tortured by vengeance spirits. I was more using that as an analogy to explain why it's just not that outlandish.

10 oaths could also get really paralyzing. Even 5 seems to take a lot of choice away from the orders. These are things you're dedicating your life to at risk of killing a good friend and constant companion. Kaladin has to protect people, even ones he doesn't like. He has to throw his life on the line. And will have to for the rest of his life. No lasting peace unless the world is at peace and then there's always violence. He finds out, he has to help. Think about how much burn out there is among social workers. Lift will never not be able to Listen to the unheard even if it gets to be too much Even if it's breaking her. Once they start talking she has to listen. And I'd argue avoiding them is breaking her oath too. There's going to be a lot of cracked people out there she's listening to. In that light being a Radiant is hard. Every one is lost choices. Often they will be choices the radiant would have sided with the oaths on anyway, but we've seen first hand how challenging even 3 of the oaths can be.

A lot of immortality options allow for maturation but not aging. The two processes are different. So it's plausible that 25 year old Jezrian had a daughter, 35 year Old Jezriam became a herald along with his 10 year old daughter that climbed a mountain and looked, and that she still continued maturing until around 25 when the brain finishes its maturation process. She could grow. Her biological maturation mechanisms(puberty/etc) could happen, but she won't move past that point because her cells won't degrade as they copy.

Yeah. Between Stormlight, Rock's recent physical fitness regimen, and his general stature the shardbow never felt out of line. The guy who played the mountain just dead lifted over half a ton. Rock's his his size and has been doing hard labor for months. And being big let's you put on a lot of muscle. I'm about 6 foot 3 and make most people look pretty small. Rock has somewhere between 6 and 9 inches on me.

Again you're being over literal. People break societal prescripts in anger all the time. Rock's adherence those rules is part of him being broken. He let his brothers go to their death. He didn't help. He feels immensely guilty. And yes, you Guage broken mental health by how long it takes them to heal and how much they work to heal. That's the whole mental health field. Some people are broken by the death of a family member. Some broken by being bullied in school. And some undamaged by genocide. Resiliency is unpredictable. That's the human condition.

Not really. It's likely that the amounts people have been able to push are immediately drained by some kind of mechanism.

It's always seemed the mos likely to me that there's a mechanism to open that pillar to the storms to infuse it, one that's been sealed over by Cream at this point but that Dalinar could probably get working again.

Shallan's struggles are real struggles people have. I work with those people. I help those people. Not many people are out there waging war. That's a far less human problem and it distances people from its effects. War may be dark, but domestic violence is a much bigger and closer to home problem for most of the planet. Fighting for you life is understandable. Beating your helpless family is not. That said, Dalinar's arc in Oathbringer is also fantastic. But they take trauma from very different angles and that's important because trauma hits everyone different. As for Kaladin's arc... Sorry but no. Kaladin is whiny, petulent, and bigoted through most of that book. He's being an idiot. Him realizing that and finally being a good person is a relief, not epic. And Shallan leads him straight to those realizations in the chasm.

Sorry man but no. The best written most poignant parts of the book are about Shallan. You don't have to like her but the amazing way it details how she became who she is is a masterclass in keeping hope amidst dark dark subject matter.

Try to convince her that she'll miss lots of hidden details if she only hears the best parts. Especially with Shallan's arc, so much of the emotion in Kaladin's recognition of her pain comes from those uncomfortable dark flashbacks. I have no idea what Licensing is like in your area, but the more standard audiobook is only like 48 hours long and if you train her to speed up can be done much quicker than that.(Graphic audio is great but I often find that the attempts at filmifying just don't work because the soundmixing for the voices never feels like its actually in the described space. When you don't try for that it at least feels more natural. I have no idea where your wife sits on portrayl of Trauma but the Stormlight Archive has some of the best deepest most hopeful takes on it out there. And Audiobooks are great for all kinds of chores. You could always try to convince her that chore-time becomes also audiobook time where you throw the audiobook on while you two clean/do dishes/etc. Its great if you're bad at home maintenance because it incentives the work and its great if you're good at it because it becomes a communal activity. But I'd seriously try to get her to read WoR. There's so much that she'll miss.

I doubt this is a real scene within the timeline Just Bridge 4 looking cool.

You're really not reading between the lines at all. Not every word spoken is true and Rock has been more closed off than most. The Nuatoma was not his cousin, he just hasn't been willing to admit the truth of where he should be. He's been obfuscating everything about his story, but it's all there. Pretty obviously there. And yes. He's the most broken, not because of how bad what happened is, but by how he's handled it. Everybody has different levels of resiliency. Teft has stepped up to his responsibilities better than Rock and is more aware of his shortcomings. Rlain hasn't given in to the depression the Listener's have been shown to have. Rock has lied. He's avoided conversations and obfuscated his past. He's refused responsibility and avoided taking on more. He's let his failures define his life and lost all trust in himself. And he's done that at a time where people need him badly. That's why he's the most broken. Not because he's been hit the hardest, but because he hasn't let himself start healing. He hides a lot of it behind bluster, but that's in many ways the biggest sign he's not moving forwards.

Because he moved from 4th son straight to Nuatoma(And after killing Amaram, a position where he'll likely be responsible for not just his Peak, but all the peaks). His oldest Brother, the Nuatoma, was killed by Sadeas in a duel for shards. His next two oldest brothers died trying to avenge their Nuatoma. Rock was brought on as a cook, fed Sadeus some Chull dung, and was made a birdgeman. He's supposed to be in charge of his tribe but doesn't want to(likely because he doesn't feel worthy/has guilt over the deaths of his brothers. He's barely acknowledged their deaths. He's in an avoidant place and possibly the most deeply broken of Bridge 4.) He's accepted his place as Bridge 4's cook because it's safe. But to move up to leader of his people is a much bigger jump.

You're missing the implication. Rock doesn't want the responsibility. He doesn't want to admit his brothers died while he stood to the side. His wife is saying he needs to go take on his responsibilities and he hasn't/won't. He has things to work through, realizations to make. You know, a character arc.

We know zero about what Squire means. Bridge 4 is a diverse group. Having them all run Windrunner would be both less interesting and counter to the way Radiants have been portrayed. He's on his way to being a Radiant. But we have no idea beyond that. It's an assumption that Squires become the same order they were a squire to and one that's weaker than other options.

To tack on to what others have said. The Iriali have used some words that almost certainly come from Nalthis in Oathbringer. Kalad is used on both Planets and the Arda/Ardentia seem linked as well.(Among many other links) Plus there's this WoB @JoyBlu Evi – In Oathbringer. She uses strange idioms. You had mentioned to watch / be on the lookout for people using strange idioms. . . . (examples “White as the sun at night” ) Is Evi native to Roshar? BRANDON SANDERSON: Yes. Her people are related to the Iri – who are not native to Roshar. She is not Irili herself. And all the Irili – they are native to Roshar – the people who are born now – even if their people aren’t. So Evi you could say right, like no humans are native to Roshar. But, Yes, She (Evi) was born on Roshar. @JoyBlu Would she (Evi) might have some of the same blood in her that Vivenna & Siri from WarBreaker would have? BRANDON SANDERSON: I’ll RAFO that.

Yep. And we're pretty sure their Spren are The Sibling, The Stormfather, and The Nightwatcher. Rock is uniquely suited to be a mediating figure between the Singers and the Humans. If he's King of the Horneaters he's leader of the people with the most mixed heritage out of anyone. That makes him a great Bondsmith candidate. He is a form of unity between three disparate peoples. (Humans, Singers, their cast off descendants who were chased into the mountains when they were probably less human appearing/a more mixed society than they are now.)

That's fine. My point is entirely that until he swears a 2nd oath he could be any order. It seems silly to think all of Bridge 4 will attract Honor Spren, squires or no. Personally, as cool as Windrunners are, there's a lot of orders to explore and Rock joining a different Order gives him a potentially more interesting progression. Especially given how Bondsmith's do this whole leading/bringing people together without as much violence, but possibly with stew, thing. Being Bondsmith material is certainly rarer than Windrunner. And given some of the speculation in other threads about the Sibling being related to the Stones... Rock and the Stonespren. Too good.